Going to the movies is often referred to as a holy experience, with good reason: you head into a dark space with your fellow film worshippers. You all turn your faces toward the light. And you are transported from your daily cares (albeit sometimes into the daily cares of the people onscreen, but no one ever said the analogy was perfect).

But if attending a screening is already potentially profound, how much moreso when the practitioners of the magic that happens on screen are there to talk about what they made? That's one of the most incredible things about TIFF: the opportunity to hear from the brilliant people who directed, wrote, acted in, and otherwise created the whole reason we're here — the films themselves.

Here are a few choice moments from the hundreds that occurred at TIFF '16. Check out even more in Part One.

"I like to take you with my arms around your shoulders into sheer poetry, into sheer imagination"

The Terry Kath Experience, a documentary about the legendary band Chicago, was directed by Michelle Sinclair, whose father was Terry Kath, co-founder and guitarist of the band. To celebrate the film, Michelle and Danny Seraphine performed some of Chicago's tunes live on stage: